BulgariaRules of the Communications Regulation Commission on access to electronic communications services through digital terrestrial broadcasting networks, Articles 12 to 15, services for persons with hearing and visual impairments
Pravila za reda za osiguryavane na dostap do elektronni saobshtitelni uslugi chrez mrezhite za nazemno tsifrovo radiorazprastvane i za… osiguryavane na elektronni saobshtitelni uslugi, prednaznacheni za litsa sas sluhovi i zritelni uvrezhdaniya chrez tezi mrezhi, chl. 12 do 15
In force.
An accessibility requirements rule binding private bodies.
What it requires
- If you carry out electronic communications through a digital terrestrial broadcasting network under an authorisation to use radio spectrum, give persons with hearing impairments appropriate access to your electronic communications services by providing specialised subtitles and sign language in the television programmes you broadcast (Art. 12 of the Rules).
- Give persons with visual impairments appropriate access by providing audio description and audio subtitles when you broadcast television programmes (Art. 13 of the Rules).
- Guarantee persons with hearing and visual impairments free access, in an appropriate way, to the events of major public importance within Article 32(3) of the Radio and Television Act on the list the Council for Electronic Media adopts (Art. 14 of the Rules).
- Meet any specific obligation on specialised subtitles, sign language, audio description or audio subtitles that your broadcasting licence from the Council for Electronic Media or your radio spectrum authorisation from the Communications Regulation Commission imposes (Art. 15 of the Rules).
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Penalty structure
Article 335 of the Act punishes a breach of the Act and of the acts issued on its basis, for which no other penalty is provided, with a fine of BGN 500 to 5,000 (EUR 255.65 to 2,556.46), and Article 336 makes it a property sanction of the same amount for a legal person or sole trader. The Act states the amounts in leva, and the euro figures convert them at the official exchange rate of 1.95583 leva to the euro, which Article 11(2) of the Euro Introduction Act applies to amounts in leva from .
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- Currency
- EUR
- Fixed cap
- 2556.46
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
The Communications Regulation Commission, which controls the carrying out of electronic communications (Article 311(1))
What it reaches
Instrument type
a regulation made under an act
Applicability criteria
- As of
- Combinator
- All of
- Criteria
- an undertaking that carries out electronic communications through digital terrestrial broadcasting networks under an authorisation to use radio spectrum: Articles 12 to 14 of the Rules bind "Предприятията, осъществяващи електронни съобщения чрез разрешение за ползване на индивидуално определен ограничен ресурс - радиочестотен спектър, за осъществяване на електронни съобщения чрез мрежи за наземно цифрово радиоразпръскване"
What this law does
The Communications Regulation Commission adopted the Rules on the basis of Article 49(1) of the Electronic Communications Act, and the Rules enter into force on the day of their promulgation in the State Gazette. Article 49(1) of the Act requires the Commission to adopt normative administrative acts that set the procedure for providing electronic communications services intended for persons with hearing and visual impairments.
Paragraph 353(1) of the transitional and final provisions of the Law published in State Gazette issue 20 of 2021 keeps in force the subordinate normative acts issued before that Law insofar as they do not contradict it.
Article 12 of the Rules requires undertakings that carry out electronic communications through digital terrestrial broadcasting networks under an authorisation to use radio spectrum to give persons with hearing impairments appropriate access to their electronic communications services by providing specialised subtitles and sign language in the television programmes they broadcast.
Article 13 of the Rules requires those undertakings to give persons with visual impairments appropriate access by providing audio description and audio subtitles when they broadcast television programmes.
Article 14 of the Rules requires those undertakings to guarantee persons with hearing and visual impairments free access, in an appropriate way, to the events of major public importance within Article 32(3) of the Radio and Television Act, according to a list adopted by the Council for Electronic Media.
Article 15 of the Rules lets specific obligations on specialised subtitles, sign language, audio description and audio subtitles be imposed through the broadcasting licences of the Council for Electronic Media and the Commission's authorisations to use radio spectrum for digital terrestrial broadcasting. Article 335 punishes a breach of the Act and of the acts issued on its basis, for which no other penalty is provided, with a fine of BGN 500 to 5,000.
Article 336 makes the sanction on a legal person or sole trader for a breach of Article 335 a property sanction in the amount of the fine. The Chair of the Commission or a member it expressly authorises issues the penal decrees (Article 337б(1)).
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